Posted on 12/27/2019 3:35:42 PM PST by Morgana
A conflict involving well over 100 teens in Stockton, California, resulted in the closure of two malls as the violence spread wildly out of control.
KCRA reported that the chaos began at around 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Weberstown Mall. Police say that between 150 and 200 juveniles were involved in a large-scale skirmish at the shopping center. Fifteen police cruisers were dispatched to the scene, and officers worked to evacuate the combatants and lock down several entrances to the mall to prevent them from coming back inside.
Once the brawling teens were escorted to the parking lot, a number of additional fistfights began to erupt as police and security tried to calm the crowd.
The group then crossed Yokuts Avenue to invade the Sherwood Mall. Seeing the crowd coming, Sherwood Mall staff placed their facility on lockdown as well. Police eventually managed to disperse the crowd, but no one was arrested.
One participant was taken to the hospital with unspecified injuries. An additional report of a female employee being assaulted at the mall's AT&T store has not been confirmed.
In video of the event, posted on social media, groups can be seen throwing punches and pulling people apart from clinches, then running when police arrive.
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We have one mall here in Lexington, KY, and this week there was a scuffle like the one described in the article. In this case, 50-75 “yutes” refused to leave at closing time. The cops managed to disperse them without arresting anybody.
“They were all described as “teens”, Jim.”
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Yutes.
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True. And widely followed by millions shopping online.
Only should we sacrifice our great couintry by surrendering to the vicious, violent,amoral, uneducated element of society?
Like High Noon with Gary Cooper or Death Wish series with Charles Bronson. Admittedly, I won’t boldly venture out first to battle the “teens” myself. So I should shut up.
I was more thinking of paying tax money to have armed people dress up in uniforms, carry badges, ride in patrol cars and enforce the laws. Oh, wait, there is a group paid to do just that. “No arrests were made.”
Well, it IS Christmastime!
They were just staging a Flash Mob to sing ‘The Messiah’ and the cops misunderstood! ;)
Rioting and wild west behavior has been a trade mark for a long time in Stockton:
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The riots of April 23, 1937, in which both sides were armed with clubs and firearms, began in front of a Stockton cannery and resulted in one death, over fifty serious injuries and tied up the movement of a $6 million vegetable crop.
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Date: April 23, 1937
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Stockton Demographics
White: 44.71%
Asian: 21.65%
Black or African American: 11.83%
Two or more races: 10.77%
Other race: 9.55%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.81%
Native American: 0.69%
Hispanics are now part of the White population.
“Again no riots nor angry drivers in the parking lots.”
Well, Dave, then just what do you do for excitement?
...but no one was arrested.
“teens” ...
I think these incidents are one of the reasons we’re going back to outdoor malls.
There didn’t appear to be any White “teens” involved.
Better move that mall to a safer location.
They were probably fighting over the last copy of Heidigger at Barnes & Noble.
“Ben, Little Joe and Hoss went to get supplies.”
That’s because they went to Virginia City.
Big Valley had Stockton as a hub. And that port city has always been a nasty place.
According to Lafayette Police, four or five shots were fired around 6:45 p.m. in the parking lot of the mall, located on Lafayette’s southeast side.
A police public information officer says officers are looking for two suspects.
The incident took place in the parking lot on the west side of the mall, between Kohl’s and Marcy’s.
Celebrating the holidays in Progressive Ghettos.
So all of them were between the ages of 13 and 19?
What a coincidence that all the perps could have been born within 6 years of each other.
Developers and merchants used to try providing nice mall shopping opportunities. A few worked out but many didn’t. Usually for high crime and riot and theft reasons. Alas!
Grampa,that’s what we do.Amazon loves my Hub...he orders everything through them!
I have never seen as many delivery vans as this year - and I’ve never seen so few news stories about crowds at malls.
Nobody is exposing their loved ones to the violent Simbas; some malls are trying curfews, but I believe it is too little, far too late.
Victoria Barkley and her brood lived near Stockton, but your point is the same.
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